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Nifty math notions : an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries /

A charming garden-path survey of many big names and big ideas in the history of mathematics, replete with funny anecdotes, delightful puzzles and challenging problems that will help you understand logic, math and the world around you as never before. This book will be read by puzzlers, thinkers and,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silver, Charles L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Washington : SPIE Press, [2024].
Series:SPIE Press monograph ; PM375.
Subjects:
Mathematical recreations.
Mathematics > Anecdotes.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Paul Erdos
  • 2 Young Gauss
  • 3 Induction and Recursion
  • 4 Euclid
  • 5 Axioms
  • 6 Angles of a Triangle
  • 7 Aristotle
  • 8 Riddles
  • 9 Archimedes
  • 10 Eratosthenes
  • 11 More Ancient Wisdom: Theodorus, Plato, Hypatia, and Thales
  • 12 Probabilities
  • 13 Paradoxes
  • 14 Fallacies
  • 15 The Problem with Rabbits
  • 16 Miscellaneous Problems
  • 17 Unsolved Problems
  • 18 Sentential Logic
  • 19 Functions
  • 20 Set Theory
  • 21 Group Theory and Other Elementary Theories
  • 22 Computer Science
  • 23 Undecidability: Gödel and Chaitin
  • Solutions to Exercises
  • References.